Forestry and Biodiversity

by Bunnell, Fred L.; Dunsworth, Glen B.

• ISBN13: 9780774815307
• ISBN10: 0774815302
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr

Summary

Sustainable management is a problem for countries that depend on natural resources. Forests contain much of the world's biodiversity and offer significant renewable resources with a potentially small ecological and carbon footprint. Yet as global demand for forest products increases, conserving biodiversity has become more urgent and challenging.--Forestry and Biodiversity makes the case for adaptive management--a structural approach to learning by doing--to sustain biodiversity in managed forests. It draws on the theory and principles of conservation biology and forest ecology and illustrates them, and the challenges they pose, through a practical, real-world study of a 1.1 million hectare commercial operation i a coastal temporate rainforest.--"This book is an essential read and reference for all forest stakeholders who are committed to integrated management of forests for sustained economic, environmental, and cultural values. So much written about this subject is theoretical, but this book shares major lessons from a large-scale real-world effort to implement such management and to assess its effectiveness."--Jerry Franklin, University of Washington--Fred L. Bunnell is professor emeritus of forestry and conservation biology at the University of British Columbia. Glen B. Dunsworth is a forest ecology and conservation biology consultant.